mwconstants

Various utilities and constants useful for analyses of wikitext. This package contains three types of artifacts:

• Data generating functions: Python functions for calling various APIs to build useful data structures -- e.g., all Wikipedia language codes
• Static data snapshots: Python variables that contain the most recent result of a data generating function
• Utilities: Python functions for handling various wikitext-related processing tasks -- e.g., mapping links to namespaces.

Installation

You can install mwconstants with pip:

   $ pip install mwconstants

Basic Usage

from mwconstants import link_to_namespace, NON_WHITESPACE_LANGUAGES

print(link_to_namespace('Utilisateur:Isaac_(WMF)', lang='fr'))  # 'User'
print(sorted(NON_WHITESPACE_LANGUAGES))  # ['bo', 'bug', ..., 'zh-classical', 'zh-yue']

Modules

All modules generally contain relevant constants, functions for generating those constants, and other useful utilities for manipulating them:

• languages.py: functions for identifying languages associated with a given Wikimedia project.
• media.py: functions for identifying media in wikitext and parsing wikitext media syntax into its components
• namespaces.py: functions for identifying namespace prefixes

Limitations

• Links have many edge-cases, especially around interwiki prefixes. For now, just the basics are covered: language-specific namespaces and interlanguage links